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Cheryl in Monmouth County, NJ, called Mark to let him know that she thinks Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani could get deported due to his citizenship. Chipper in Stony Point, NY, calls Mark to ask him his three favorite Frank Sinatra songs.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mister New York. He's on the game The Mark Simone
Show on seventor Hey, we'll pick calls eight hundred three
to two one zero seven pence number, the Bill Ackman
pickup line. May I meet you well? Jacqueline carl just
said if a guy walked up to her and said that,
she'd think there was something wrong with him and would run.

(00:21):
So he's onto something with the politeness and the good grammar.
So maybe come up with a variation of it. Excuse me,
I'm sorry to interrupt. May I just say hello? Still
sounds lame. I don't try something like that. Let's go
to Paul in Beth Page. Paul, how you doing.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
I'm doing great, mar good morning. I wanted to ask
you about Mondani with this free transit with the buses
and stuff. Let's just say hypothetically, he tells Tish that
don't enforce it like you would force spitting in the subway.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
Then he's getting his Yeah, you could do that right now.
Half the people don't pay the subway or the buses.
Half the people jump the turnstile or just get out
and don't pay. In drivers, they they don't enforce that now,
so the people that want to ride for free or
riding for free free buses. It's just a gimmick. If
you had a major massive affordability crisis the bus prices,

(01:20):
that's that's not going to solve it, obviously, it's just
a little gimmicky thing. Let's go to Cheryl in Monmouth County. Cheryl,
how you doing good?

Speaker 3 (01:27):
Mark? How are you? I listened to you all the time.
I love you on couslo and everything. I'm calling Now,
let me ask.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
You a personal question. If you lived in Connecticut, you'd say,
I'm from this town, I'm from Westport, I'm from oh Okay, Danby.
But New Jersey people they identify themselves by the county.
Why is that? I don't know I'm from Bergen County.
Why don't they just say what town they're in?

Speaker 3 (01:51):
You know, I did it because I didn't want too
much information out.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
We think we're following.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
No, no, no, no, no, whatever, it's not it's not important anyway.
This is what is important, and I feel passionate about it.
And I thought, gee, maybe I'm sitting in my car
and I'm listening to you. I'm saying, let me do it, Okay,
go ahead, this I'm Dami, We're going to talk about

(02:18):
all the things that he's saying that are so anti American.
And the thing is, I did a research and from
my education, I remember a lot and I attempted to
notify a leaf. Stephonic and President Trump. Now I'm calling you,

(02:41):
and I know you're connected. I know. What's the point,
Okay nineteen nineteen forty, Amma Goldman, We.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Got to tell me the point. Tell me the point.
What's the point?

Speaker 3 (02:53):
The point is there's precedent for deporting him.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Well, there is a committee working on that. They're going
over his application.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
Listen, Eisenhower nineteen, Yeah, we.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Understand all this. You can. You can deport all the
people you want. Yeah. Eisenhower ran Operation Wetback. They use buses, planes, trains.
They deported about a million people in a year. But
they are looking at mom, Donnie, if you lied in
any way on his citizenship application, his visa, anything, and
there's a couple of people looking at that, looking to
get him revoke his citizenship. That's possible. They're also looking

(03:28):
at foreign campaign donations. They keep saying they're looking. So far,
they've come up with nothing, and it's getting a little late.
But they're looking at that. If they can find he
accepted foreign money knowingly, they can still remove him, believe
it or not. Let's go to Chipper and Stony Point. Chipper,
how you doing.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
Him? Mark?

Speaker 1 (03:47):
How are you good?

Speaker 3 (03:49):
Okay, Harry, I just got I just like to know three.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
Oh you can't pick three favorite It's impossible, No, you could.
He couldn't do it. You know. When I used to
do the Sinatra Show, every great singer in the world
was a guest, and I asked everyone to pick their
favorite Sinatra song and never got the same answer twice.
There's a million. His two best albums we Small Hours
of the Morning. I don't have favorites, but his two

(04:18):
best albums we Small Hours of the Morning and Only
the Lonely, Those are the two. If you got to
start somewhere, start with those two albums. And obviously, I
mean it's incredible body of work. One hundred albums recorded,
fourteen hundred songs. That's not the most albums, by the way.
The most elefant Cheryl one hundred and sixty six albums,

(04:42):
but the all time record was Bing Crosby two hundred
albums over his career. Let's go to Richard and Bay
Shore Richard. How you doing.

Speaker 4 (04:51):
I'm doing well.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
Mark.

Speaker 4 (04:52):
You know, Kansas City had free busses, but now they're
going back to charging feares and the bus driver's rule
four because unless you're like thirty, some other of them
were assaulted when they had a fair it almost never happened.
They had to hire guards in Kansas City, and then
they had to hire armed guards, which courts them millions
of dollars. So the whole thing, you know, and obviously, yes,

(05:17):
the homeless, the drunks, the druggies, they used the bus
as as their hangout.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
Yeah, we know, it doesn't work. It never works. It's
never worked anywhere. It's free stuff. And affordability crisis, there
is one. It seems to only be in the blue
cities where they have this affordability crisis. But one of
the reasons it's so expensive to live in New York.
It's like the greatest city in the world. It's really expensive.
You know, if you go to a Westchester you know, Scarsdale, Oh,

(05:45):
it's really expensive to live there. But you ever see
what it looks like. It's beautiful Mount Vernon not so expensive,
but you see what it looks like. It doesn't look
like Scarsdale. You have that everywhere. Go to that coffee
shop on the corner, not that expensive, but they'll walk
a block away and going to Tiffany's. Wooh, is it expense.
There's an affordability crisis in there, but that's because it's

(06:07):
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